ABSTRACT
Michael Neill's readings of Othello revealed the importance the play attaches to place, place both in the sense of geographical locale and in the sense of social place or office. This chapter shows that Neill' long and fruitful relationship with Othello, a text he has edited and written about over the course of several decades, provides us with strategies for reading some of the texts that constitute the after-life of Othello. It focuses on the novel of a Sudanese writer, Tayeb Salih, whose Season of Migration to the North hows its debts to William Shakespeare in its preoccupation with questions of displaced subjects, their unstable social identities, and the objects through which their dilemmas are expressed, negotiated, and materialized. Salih's novel has long been recognized as m conversation both with Othello and with Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The novel is a doubled tale of colonial displacement.
